Backlash against the Left

[FreakinDJ]

Found this buried deep within an article published just after the second Democratic debate. I goes very far in explaining the incesent attacks against Burney Sanders by Third Way board members

Backlash against the Left


Earlier this month, on the morning right after Clinton, Sanders, and O'Malley wrapped up their second debate, a very different type of Democratic meeting convened in New York. In a closed-door strategy conference, members of the conservative faction of the Democratic Party met at Columbia University to map out their agenda for 2016.

The main item up for discussion: how to block the move toward populist economics and turn the national discussion away from inequality.

The meeting was convened by Will Marshall and the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), which was the think-tank of policy wizards who engineered the Democratic Party's move to the center in the 1990s under the banner of the 'third way'.

Though their star has faded in recent years, the New Democrats (as the centrists have been calling themselves for the last quarter century) are determined to once again take control of the party and its message. They are not holding back in their attacks against the 99 percent movements that are reshaping the Democratic Party.


In a recent column, Marshall wrote that "another rousing round of populism, business-bashing and exhortations by Senator Bernie Sanders to Americans to stop worrying and learn to love democratic socialism" only spells trouble for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton when she eventually captures the nomination.

Bill Clinton's former guru, Al From of the now-defunct Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), joined in and warned Democrats to shy away from talking too much about inequality. He says it just revs up the base to redistribute golden eggs from a "dead goose."




http://peoplesworld.org/third-way-democrats-preparing-to-challenge-the-left-for-factional-control/

[gcomeau]

1. How ever so shocking ..

[FreakinDJ]

3. Question is "Why no attacks against Hillary"

Lately she has been trying to paint herself as to the Left of Bernie. Even going as far as saying Bernie is not a true Progressive

[Samantha]

6. She is a New Dem or Third Way politician

Bill Clinton coined that term towards the end of his second term to describe his particular brand of politics - a Democrat that compromises with Republicans in the manner he did, even if it meant making cuts in programs the people of the party would oppose.

Sam

[FreakinDJ]

7. susceptible to the blowing of the political winds

Many progressives and left activists have long questioned the nature of Clinton's relation to their movement, and rightfully so. She has solid credentials as a New Democrat and was a key promoter of the third way internationally along with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Al From, and Will Marshall during the 1990s.

But that is not the end of the story.

To be a nationally-viable candidate for the Democratic Party, a certain amount of ideological and political flexibility is needed. Most Democrats - and the Clintons foremost among them - are susceptible to the blowing of the political winds.


http://peoplesworld.org/third-way-democrats-preparing-to-challenge-the-left-for-factional-control/

[Coincidence]

8. They know she's full of crap, it's a strategy that may have been devised in that very meeting. nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. thx! nt

😀

[Betty Karlson]

4. Yeah... we noticed as much.

[TM99]

5. Fuck you Al From.

That 'dead goose' seems to lay plenty of golden eggs to pay for corporate welfare and the MIC, but apparently it is 'dead' when we the people ask that maybe we could have a few of the nice things other civilized countries have like free post-secondary tuition and universal healthcare.

[cosmicone]

9. 99% is an illusion -- no such thing as 1% or 99%

People move in and out of social strata all the time

[w4rma]

11. Every time I see a stupid post it has a Clinton avatar attached to it. (nt)

[ebayfool]

13. Well, I'm sure the 1% agree with you.

But for most of the 99% - your assurance of illusion prolly rings hollow.

imo

[w4rma]

10. That's not a "backlash". That's been the constant war on regular Americans that the DLC has waged

since former President Clinton began waging it.

[jfern]

12. The party establishment seems more interested in fighting the left than the right

[liberal_at_heart]

14. kick.

[bbgrunt]

15. K n R!!